[Drew]

Originally posted by Deepblue
No. One of these should be the splash screen.

one of these most definitly

or this one http://www.fattonys.com/images/Upload/Screen6604.jpg

[Goober5000]

This looks absolutely stunning:

This looks pretty good too; almost cutscene quality:

But other than those two, I don't really like anything else in the thread.

[jdjtcagle]

You got to see this in-game.
http://swooh.com/peon/jdjtcagle/2_PreLoad.pcx
Dump in interface folder

[Goober5000]

Meh.  Too dark.

[jdjtcagle]

well..
I like it:p

[Fineus]

I think it depends what people want, some want one ship with one background and what have you.. keeping it simple. Others want lots going on, lots of detail and such. Personally I'm leaning toward the later of the two.

And Woolie, I thought we were looking at it from an artistic point of view? That's what you said, and this ship is white. Make it another color and really pimp the lighting system.

I do continue to "beg" for an action shot though, it'd be much more hitting as a shot.

[Nico]

wait for my eze, stick it with the high poly fenris over lightspeed blue nebula, et voila

[Lightspeed]

Well, the Sathanas screenie is a bit odd because I had the default white sun in the mission, and ambient light was completely missing.

Nice screenshot though, JD

[Sheepy]

could you get a load of different shots and get it to pick one at random at start up or something?

[Taristin]

Like in the credits?

[Fineus]

Yeah, but without changing between them as it loads. Just pick one at random for each time you load the game.

That said, not sure how that would impact memory / size / load times etc.

[ChronoReverse]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
I do continue to "beg" for an action shot though, it'd be much more hitting as a shot.

YES!

That's exactly it.  Why it is that people always put up shots of either one ship face either left or right and doing not much or they have several ships lined up doing not much?

If you really want to look at it artisticallly, you have to start thinking in terms of focal points, lighting, colour, space and energy.  Even a single ship doing nothing at all can have energy and feel dynamic.

[Sheepy]

basically something like a nice render ... but ingame

[Fineus]

But without the Christmas theme, the rocket cars and the rainbow beams. And of course in game

[ChronoReverse]

Hmm, colourful.  The focal point is definitely the Hecate, unfortunately, the beams are so bright that they actually saturate to white and draw the eyes away from the focal point.


But it's colourful

[WMCoolmon]

Ooh, I like that first pic. Just goes to show you what a little anti-aliasing can do.

BTW, the high-poly fenris and herc models would also be great candidates for splash screens

[jdjtcagle]

Bump, I like this one if it didn't have the tageting bractets

[Kazan]

DUDE!! convert that think to a jpg you nit

a 1024x768x32bpp bitmap is 6 MEGS

[jdjtcagle]

Ohh!!...sorry about that

[Lightspeed]

use a different beam where the intersection bug isn't THAT visible